John DYERSecretary of TF-MSPTERENA

www.terena.org

21-09-2011

SPOT-ON PROPSAL TO EC

Overview of SPOT-ONSmart Procurement, Ordering and Tendering fOr NRENs

›Coordination and support actions FP7 Capactities

›COH-2012-PROCURERS Support to trans-national networks of procurers

›Call closed 5 January 2012

›Partners› SURFdiensten, NL › UNINETT, NO› TERENA, NL› HEANET, IE› SURFnet, NL

›Duration: 3 years

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The Background

›Procurement – significant function in the NRENs

›NREN portfolios expanding› Cloud Service; Hosting; Mobile Services;› Software Licensing

›40 NRENs repeating the process

›Prior interest in solving this problem

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NRENs procurement portfolios

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SPOT-ON concept

›Procurement requires specialist knowledge › Market, good practice, legal, procurement rules …

›Wide variety of NRENs; portfolios & approaches

›SPOT-ON aims to share skills & expertise:› Increasing procurement efficiency for our community› Innovating procurement processes & methods› Knowledge dissemination

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Information Dissemination

› Planned NREN tenders› collaborative or co-operative tendering may be considered, resulting in better offerings

› Post tender information› Evaluation and results

› Intelligence› evaluation models, scorecards and assessment models›Best Practice;

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SPOT-ON Timeline

› Year 1›project set-up, organising the platform and information gathering

› Year 2 › info analysis, problem solving and defining structures. Set-up of repository, NREN tender catalogue and SPOT-ON exchange platform

› Year 3› implementing solutions and dissemination.

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SPOT-ON Deliverables

› Open website› Closed partners collaboration platform› Promotional material including› Workshops› Documentation› Legal & commercial Findings› Best Practice documents and templates› Newsletter› Final conference

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